Red Dirt Girl-Emmylou Harris

[ti:Red Dirt Girl] [ar:Emmylou Harris] [al:Red Dirt Girl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Red Dirt Girl (红尘土女孩) - Emmylou Harris (爱美萝·哈里斯) [00:21.15]Me and my best friend Lillian [00:24.04]And her blue tick hound dog gideon [00:27.09]Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade [00:30.11]Singin every song the radio played [00:33.11]Waitin for the alabama sun to go down [00:35.92]Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town [00:38.80]Me and Lillian [00:39.97] [00:44.75]Just across the line [00:46.15]And a little southeast of meridian [00:49.62] [00:53.70]She loved her brother I remember back when [00:56.62]He was fixin' up a '49 indian [00:59.70]He told her 'little sister gonna ride the wind [01:02.43]Up around the moon and back again [01:05.06] [01:05.57]He never got farther than vietnam [01:08.35]I was standin there with her when the telegram come [01:11.21]For Lillian [01:12.93] [01:17.24]Now he's lyin somewhere [01:18.50]About a million miles from meridian [01:20.99] [01:25.93]She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl [01:29.10]Somewhere out there is the great big world [01:31.89]Thats where I'm bound [01:33.51] [01:37.98]And the stars might fall on alabama [01:40.81]One of these days I'm gonna swing [01:43.37]My hammer down [01:45.07] [01:46.54]Away from this red dirt town [01:48.62] [01:52.19]I'm gonna make a joyful sound [01:55.96] [02:07.74]She grew up tall and she grew up thin [02:10.71]Buried that old dog gideon [02:13.54]By a crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard [02:16.61]Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard [02:19.20] [02:19.95]Got in trouble with a boy from town [02:22.63]Figured that she might as well settle down [02:25.39]So she dug right in [02:27.55] [02:31.08]Across a red dirt line [02:32.82]Just a little southeast of meridian [02:35.42] [02:40.23]Yeah she tried hard to love him but it never did take [02:43.27]It was just another way for the heart to break [02:46.14]So she learned to bend [02:47.68] [02:52.07]One thing they don't tell you about the blues [02:54.07]When you got 'em [02:55.20]You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom [02:57.75]There ain't no end [02:59.89] [03:03.17]At least not for Lillian [03:05.21] [03:10.25]Nobody knows when she started her skid [03:12.74]She was only 27 and she had five kids [03:15.81]Coulda been the whiskey [03:17.28]Coulda been the pills [03:18.69]Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill [03:21.68]But there won't be a mention in the news of the world [03:24.70]About the life and the death of a red dirt girl [03:27.49]Named Lillian [03:29.26] [03:33.29]Who never got any further [03:34.84]Across the line than meridian [03:38.72] [03:42.18]Now the stars still fall on alabama [03:45.48]Tonight she finally laid [03:47.74]That hammer down [03:49.30] [03:51.28]Without a sound [03:53.88] [03:57.01]In the red dirt ground